Until now, the phenotypic diversity among European hunter-gatherers was only known from a small number of fossils and was thought to be fairly homogeneous,” said Dr. Maïté Rivollat, lead geneticist of ...

Perhaps closest to the mystery these days is art restorer Bart Devolder, at Ghent's Museum of Fine Arts. He is working on the most ambitious restoration yet of the 15th-century painting.

The Ghent Altarpiece, which was completed in 1432 and is housed at St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, is a large and complex painting that has captured the imagination of the art world for ...

Reporting from Ghent, Belgium — — When Anne van Grevenstein-Kruse was a child, her family made a pilgrimage from Antwerp to Ghent to see “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” the ...

Perhaps closest to the mystery these days is art restorer Bart Devolder, at Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts. He is working on the most ambitious restoration yet of the 15th-century painting.

If you visit Ghent to view the altarpiece, which was recently painstakingly restored, you may think that you are seeing the Righteous Judges panel there.But in fact, this panel is a copy made ...

Ghent Altarpiece, world’s ‘most stolen work of art,’ reopens to public in $35 million bullet-proof display case ...

Art: Ghent Robbed; Art: Ghent Robbed. 2 minute read. TIME. April 23, 1934 12:00 AM GMT-5. A candle flickered, there was a shriek of torn wood that echoed through the 13th Century choir, and a dark ...

Medieval and magical, vibrant and edgy – the Belgian city is a sensory overload Plundered, dismantled and stolen, it’s a miracle that the Ghent Altarpiece – also known as the Adoration of ...

Arguably the most important painting in the history of art, the Ghent Altarpiece is certainly the most frequently stolen. An enormous polyptych the size of a barn wall (14.5 by 11.5 feet), and ...

GHENT - When Art Omi opened in 1992, it was a simple park with no entrance or staff. At the time, it was used as an international residency program, inviting artists from around the world to come ...